Eruption: Italian Edition

In Hawaii, 2016, Rachel Sherrill, a brilliant biologist working at the Hilo Botanical Gardens, is leading a group of students on a visit. One of the kids asks her to explain a strange phenomenon: some trees are turning black and oozing a substance that looks like ink, while thunders echo in the otherwise clear sky, with the silhouette of the Mauna Loa volcano in the background. After the park is evacuated and a military inspection labels the incident as a fire, everything seems to go back to normal as if nothing happened.

Fast forward to Hawaii, 2025. Nine years later, as the world faces increasingly urgent environmental challenges, the Mauna Loa volcano is simmering with growing fury. John MacGregor, a passionate surfer and expert vulcanologist who leads the Hawaiian Volcano Observatory, knows that a catastrophic eruption of Mauna Loa is inevitable. But there's more to it. Deep within the volcano lies a dark secret, a legacy from the past that could spell doom for the entire planet.

Hidden in a cave on the mountain's slopes are containers of a herbicide that was accidentally rendered radioactive years ago. If released into the atmosphere during an eruption, it would have catastrophic consequences not only for the population of Hilo but for the ecosystem and inhabitants of the Earth. As time runs out and Mauna Loa's activity reaches a point of no return, MacGregor and his team embark on a desperate mission to stop the impending disaster, battling the fierce heat of lava flows and earthquakes that seem to shatter every hope.

Only a suicidal mission or a miracle, which no one seems to believe in anymore, can save humanity's fate. Michael Crichton's unfinished masterpiece has found its brilliant conclusion in James Patterson.

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